Past News & Events

​​Past Speakers to the Centre for Business Sustainability's Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series include:

Date​Seminar Topic​Name Of Speaker
​02 May 2018​​Corporate Governance, Greenwashing and Sustainability in Transitional Economy.​​Associate Professor Jie Wu, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau​
​18 April 2018​​​​Ecolabel credibility and sustainable purchasing.​​Professor Nicole Darnall, School of Public Affairs and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
​15 August 2017​​​Are Emerging Market Multinationals Not Welcome? Social License to Acquire Abroad.​​​Dr Olga Hawn
Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability Distinguished Fellow,
University of North Carolina
​10 March 2017​Sustainability in Transportation.​Professor Rommert Dekker, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
​15 ​February 2017​Building Organizational Capacity for Sustainable Innovation.​Professor Sanjay Sharma,
University of Vermont, USA.
​30 November 2016​The Business Case of Sustainability - a contested field.​Professor Dr. Timo Busch, University of Hamburg, Germany.​​
​09 ​November 2016​Quantitative Methodologies for Sustainability Assessment.​Professor Michael Z. Hauschild, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
October 5, 2016​​Will business save the Earth? The potential and limits of innovating our way to sustainability.Professor Michael Lenox, University of Virginia, USA.
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September 28, 2016.​Philanthropic campaigns and customer behaviour: Field experiments in an online taxi booking company.

​Associate Professor Jasjit Singh, INSEAD, Singapore.
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July 25, 2016.​Are hazardous substance rankings effective? An empirical investigation or changing assessments of the relative hazards of chemicals and voluntary emissions reductions.

​​Professor Ravi Subramanian, Georgia Tech, USA.
February 17, 2016.​After greenwashing: The social costs and benefits of corporate green talk.

​Professor Frances Bowen, University of London, UK.
January 28, 2016.​A theory of multi-tier ecolabel competition.

​Prof. Tom Lyon, University of Michigan, USA.
January 27, 2016.​How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate.

​Professor Andy Hoffman, University of Michigan, USA.
December 09, 2015.​The effect of the Rana Plaza disaster on shareholder wealth of retailers.

​Professor Vinod Singhal, Georgia Tech, USA.
November 11, 2015.​Shine on me: Industry coherence, social movement support, and government policy support for the nascent solar photovoltaic industry.

​Associate Professor Glen Dowell, Cornell University, USA.
October 07, 2015.​Creating occupational change from the inside: Exploring the case of green chemistry.

​Associate Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville, University of Cambridge, UK.
September 02, 2015.​A configurational approach to studying grand challenges: How non-profits, local institutions, and community fabric interact to influence community inequality.

​​Associate Professor Pascual Berrone, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain.

 

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